Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Barbra Streisand loses it.
First off, since she never read the script, and only spent four hours at the set, I'm amazed she has an opinion to express about this.
It's hard to tell where to start in this. Let's just go sentence by sentence.
Barbra says that in 1964 CBS gave her "complete artistic control in creating television specials..." OK, but CBS never promised to broadcast anything she made. I wonder if she kept that in mind as she was creating?
As for caving to "right wing Republican pressure," as far as I can tell, the pressure actually came from a groundswell of public opinion. Does Barbra really think Les Moonves is really going to knuckle under to "right wing Republican pressure?" No way. Never.
Mind you, I can think of one kind of pressure that would cause CBS to take such action: advertisers. Don't look to the RNC, Barbra, look to the people with a vested interest in not being boycotted for supporting the broadcast of a Democrat Big Lie.
Democrats never muscle the First Amendment? McCain-Feingold. Hello?!
The difference between the Kennedy "biopic" and the Reagan movie is that the Kennedy biopic had a relationship with reality. The Reagan movie contained few if any facts and an awful lot of invention. Can you see the difference?
This is not censorship. No law was involved in this, no government. CBS could have broadcast the movie to the public, it just decided it would prefer not to alienate its (steadily declining) audience.
As for that prior-restraint BS, there was no information to be broadcast, just a pack of lies.
When Rush calls Democrats on really bad lies, he says "Barbra Streisand!"
Well, Barbra Streisand!
First off, since she never read the script, and only spent four hours at the set, I'm amazed she has an opinion to express about this.
It's hard to tell where to start in this. Let's just go sentence by sentence.
Barbra says that in 1964 CBS gave her "complete artistic control in creating television specials..." OK, but CBS never promised to broadcast anything she made. I wonder if she kept that in mind as she was creating?
As for caving to "right wing Republican pressure," as far as I can tell, the pressure actually came from a groundswell of public opinion. Does Barbra really think Les Moonves is really going to knuckle under to "right wing Republican pressure?" No way. Never.
Mind you, I can think of one kind of pressure that would cause CBS to take such action: advertisers. Don't look to the RNC, Barbra, look to the people with a vested interest in not being boycotted for supporting the broadcast of a Democrat Big Lie.
Democrats never muscle the First Amendment? McCain-Feingold. Hello?!
The difference between the Kennedy "biopic" and the Reagan movie is that the Kennedy biopic had a relationship with reality. The Reagan movie contained few if any facts and an awful lot of invention. Can you see the difference?
This is not censorship. No law was involved in this, no government. CBS could have broadcast the movie to the public, it just decided it would prefer not to alienate its (steadily declining) audience.
As for that prior-restraint BS, there was no information to be broadcast, just a pack of lies.
When Rush calls Democrats on really bad lies, he says "Barbra Streisand!"
Well, Barbra Streisand!
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